Switched

I was in the need of a new computer and decided to get a nice MacBook Pro.

I've managed pretty well by myself so far, but I do have one question...
Is there any "CTRL-ALT-DEL" equivalent for macs?
Something that lets you see all the open applications and processes running on your machine?
The only reason I ask is that somehow I managed to freeze finder while I was transfering files from my windows machine to my new notebook. If I was on windows, I would do the ctrl-alt-del thing and then close the offending processes.
Here, I was pretty much clueless about what to do. I figured out by myself that holding down the power button for a few seconds force-shutdown the thing, and I restarted without any problem.

ctrl+alt+del equivelent is under the apple menu - can't think of what its called, but its easy to find. you can do force quits from the apple menu and from the dock (context/right click/two-finger tap on the dock icon to get a force quit option).

here's some other stuff you may find useful!
welcome to the forums!

for new users:

a few apps to check out:onyx - excellent maintenance tool, great for cache maintenance and tweaking preferences

delocalizer - will free up a couple gigs of space by removing extra language support if you don't need it (i recovered about 2.8Gb by removing all support except us and uk english and spanish).

unison - great newsreader/binary downloader if you need that sort of thing.

adium - great chat program (similar to functionality of trillian for windows).

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mac: a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
MAC: a data communication protocol sub-layer, also known as the Media Access Control
Mac: a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

Yeah, I discovered Adium, Virtue, Cyberduck, Colloquy, UnRarX, OpenOffice, and VLC on my own a few nights ago (I knew about the last two from windows though).
Great programs... Virtue totally blew me away when I first loaded it

ctrl+alt+del equivelent is under the apple menu - can't think of what its called, but its easy to find. you can do force quits from the apple menu and from the dock (context/right click/two-finger tap on the dock icon to get a force quit option).

here's some other stuff you may find useful!
welcome to the forums!

for new users:

a few apps to check out:onyx - excellent maintenance tool, great for cache maintenance and tweaking preferences

delocalizer - will free up a couple gigs of space by removing extra language support if you don't need it (i recovered about 2.8Gb by removing all support except us and uk english and spanish).

unison - great newsreader/binary downloader if you need that sort of thing.

adium - great chat program (similar to functionality of trillian for windows).

Congrats! You should check out the stickies here. They have some good tips on the basic utilities of Mac OS X. Besides that, I recommend iWork, if you do any publishing to anyone (like term papers to teachers or flyers). It kills MS Word by design.

hmmm. just checked it to make sure i didn't have to update it. still seems to work. *whew*

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